For over 100 years Pine Mountain has been focused on enriching lives and connecting people through Appalachian place-based education for all ages.
An in-depth digital look at the Pine Mountain Settlement School Archive. The collections
ARCHIVE INDEX TO SERIES AND GUIDES
FULL INDEX TO COLLECTIONS
Now over 2,000 pages of local and regional history and biographies.
ABOUT THE ARCHIVE
OUR VISION
The Vision of the Pine Mountain Settlement School Archive is to provide a voice that will encourage transformations in our relationship to the cultures of the Appalachian region through access to a unique and extensive body of material about one of the earliest rural settlement schools within the region. The Rural Settlement School Movement and its impact on the people of Eastern Kentucky and the Southern Appalachians is a story that has sometimes been misrepresented, romanticized, or only partially understood and described. We envision an accessible, deep, vibrant and vital resource that will encourage exploration and collaborative dialogue about the hidden and sometimes contested history of rural settlement schools within the Appalachian dialog. We envision a broader dissemination of research materials across all public, private, and federal sectors interested in Appalachian cultures and lives. more …
OUR ARCHIVAL MISSION
The Pine Mountain Settlement School archival mission supports the institutional mission and its strategic planning goals. Our institutional mission continues a long 108-year history of evolving educational and social enrichment programs centered on the local community and beyond. Once a boarding school with a progressive educational curriculum, Pine Mountain Settlement School’s recent educational programming has moved away from residential education to multi-faceted offerings of short-term environmental, cultural, medical, social, agricultural, and arts and crafts programs and workshops. But, the archive has not moved away from, nor will it move away from, a commitment to Pine Mountain as place and people. more …
To access the Archive go to INDEX TO ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS (also at the top of the page).
Go to PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL MAIN PAGE to learn more about the School’s current workshops, community interaction, annual events, and other activities. It is also where you can find information about donating to the School and visiting the campus.
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ARCHIVE WHAT’S NEW AND OLD!
APRIL
DANCING IN THE CABBAGE PATCH Trees
A historical overview of the forest associated with Pine Mountain Settlement School, Kentucky including a 1921 inventory of timber, a poem to a sovereign tree, and comments on dispossession and trees, and more …
American Botanist, Ecologist, … Photographs and documents related to the friendship and conservation efforts of Emma Lucy Braun and her friend Katherine Pettit.
MARCH
098 IX STUDENTS at PMSS singles I
[Set I] Spanning the years from 1931 until 1944 these photographs (I & II) capture life during the Boarding School years at Pine Mountain Settlement. Photographs of students and staff are included.
Can you identify any of the students? office@pinemountainsettlementschool.com
098 IX STUDENTS at PMSS singles II
[Set II] Spanning the years from 1931 until 1944 these photographs (I & II) capture life during the Boarding School years at Pine Mountain Settlement. Photographs of students and staff are included.
Can you identify any of the students? office@pinemountainsettlementschool.com
“We of the United States are amazingly rich in the elements from which we weave a culture. We have the best of man’s past on which to draw, brought to us by our native folk and folk from all parts of the world. In binding these elements into a national fabric of beauty and strength let us keep the original fibers so intact that the fineness of each will show in the completed handiwork. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
See the WHAT’S NEW! ARCHIVE for previously featured collections,
NOW IN A NEW EASIER-TO-NAVIGATE FORMAT. This archived list includes links to
FAMILIES IN PINE MOUNTAIN VALLEY COMMUNITY (See June and November 2018).
ARCHIVE LATEST DIGITAL ADDITIONS
MAY 2021
5/7 GEORGE WILLIAM TYE Student – Biography of Bill Tye, a former PMSS student (1943-1946) who went on to a career with the USAF and a Ph.D in psychiatry.
5/5 GEORGE WILLIAM TYE Correspondence 1957-1961 – Images and list of contents of correspondence of a former PMSS student (1943-1946) after his time at Pine Mountain.
5/3 GEORGE WILLIAM TYE Correspondence 1943-1946 – Images and list of contents of application and correspondence concerning a PMSS student who graduated in 1946.
5/02 1947 COMMUNITY FAIR DAY – Includes the lyrics for the traditional Fair song, “Heigh-Ho … Come to the Fair.”
APRIL 2021
4/30 CHARLSIE VAUGHN Student Staff – Biography of a PMSS student (1939-1942) and assistant nurse in the Infirmary from April to July 1947.
4/27 CHARLSIE VAUGHN Correspondence – Images and list of contents of 1947 letters to about an assistant nurse position at PMSS, which Miss Vaughn eventually accepted for a short time.
4/26 ELIZABETH HENCH Correspondence 1926 – Letters written in 1926 between PMSS staff and Elizabeth C. Hench, a PMSS trustee who promoted the School’s dairy farm and its Ayrshire cows. See also ELIZABETH HENCH biography and a guide to her fundraising letters for the upkeep of the cows at Pine Mountain.
4/23 DIRECTORS 1924 Zande Correspondence ORPHAN ASYLUM – Images and list of contents of letters between the executive secretary of the Protestant Episcopal Orphan Asylum in Louisville, Kentucky, and Ethel de long Zande, PMSS Director.
4/21 CELIA CATHCART Correspondence II – Images and list of contents of letters to Celia Cathcart (Holton) from PMSS executive staff, 1925-1926. Cathcart was a PMSS teacher and fundraiser in 1915 and 1918–1919 and a PMSS trustee.
4/20 MARY ROCKWELL HOOK Correspondence 1925-1926. Images and list of contents of the PMSS architect’s letters with the School’s staff while she was living in Kansas City, MO.
4/18 EMMITT PATTERSON Student – Biography of a PMSS student from 1945 to 1949, graduating in the last year of the boarding school. He was the son of Edna Mae (Metcalf) Patterson (PMSS student and weaving teacher) and Jess Patterson (PMSS worker and dulcimer-maker).
4/17 EMMITT PATTERSON Correspondence: Images and list of contents of a PMSS student’s papers, dated 1945 and 1946.
4/16 PUBLICATIONS RELATED 1921 Quarterly Magazine of the Southern Industrial Educational Association. Contains article by Ethel de Long Zande “For the Sake of Learning,” pp. 3-7.
4/15 BAYLIS WILMER RITCHIE JR. Visitor – Biography of a member of the Singing Family of the Cumberlands from Viper, KY, and brother of Jean Ritchie, well-known folk singer and songwriter. Many of his siblings and near relatives attended PMSS in the 1920s.
4/12 CHLOE SMITH BUNCH Student Staff – Biography of a PMSS student (1931-1935) and PMSS worker (1933-1939) who served as assistant dietitian in Laurel House and weaving instructor at the Medical Settlement Big Laurel.
4/10 CHLOE SMITH BUNCH Correspondence – Images and list of contents of a file, dated 1936-1940.
4/9 JASPER and DELPHIA DAY Staff – Biographies of a married couple who worked as launderers at Pine Mountain Settlement School for one month, November 1941.
JASPER and DELPHIA DAY Correspondence – Images and list of contents of a letter and contract concerning the Days’ employment as PMSS launderers in November 1941.
4/3 GLENN LARUE Correspondence – Images and list of contents of letters between PMSS staff and the LaRues, dated 1943 through 1955, before, during and after the former missionaries worked at Pine Mountain in the 1940s as Woodworking Instructor (Glenn LaRue) and Relief Nurse and Housemother (Dorothy LaRue). See also GLENN and DOROTHY LARUE biographies.
Go to ARCHIVE LATEST DIGITAL ADDITIONS for previous lists.
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ABOUT OCR TEXT
Many of the texts included in this site have been automatically generated using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. In some cases, these texts have not been manually reviewed or corrected.
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CITATION OF MATERIALS
Any PUBLIC use of material must properly cite Pine Mountain Settlement School in the following manner:
“[Identification of Item],” [Collection Name] [Series Number, if applicable]. [date], Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY. [date accessed]
STATEMENT REGARDING PRIVACY
The manuscript collections and archival records in the Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections may contain sensitive and/or confidential information derived from historical archives that may be protected under federal and state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers who wish to publish and users who may share material from the Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections are advised by this notice that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in some collections within the Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g. may be a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy if facts concerning an individual’s private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person for which Pine Mountain Settlement School assumes no responsibility.
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See INDEX TO COLLECTIONS for an overview of collections and series.